Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-09-15

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

Your English-speaking friend who lives in your town has asked for your advice about learning a new sport. Write an email to your friend. In your email:

• recommend a new sport that would be suitable for your friend to learn
• explain how your friend could learn this sport
• suggest that you both learn this sport together

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear ....................................,

 

Student answer (Band 6.0)

Dear Aqsa,

I hope you’re doing well. I am writing this after knowing that you want to learn new sport. Actually there is a sport club in my town, which is 5 minutes away from my home. They have quite numerous kind of sports in their club, like cricket, hockey, basketball and many other kind of sport activities too. Honestly from the last few days, i’m keen to learn basketball. I know you also love to play basketball from the school days, if we go together, we have great compnay as well as we enjoy to learn. The dustance between your home and my home is 20 minutes, it is not too far. So, i hope it is sutaible for you to come with me as well. The environment is soo pleasent. I want there one year before with my father, i would love to go with you too. I’m sure we’ll have a great time there.

I’m looking forward to your prompt response so we can go and learn sport which we love since our childhood.

Yours sincerely,

Zohra

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 6.5

The response covers all the bullet points in the task instructions well. Zohra successfully recommends a sport (basketball), explains how her friend can learn it by visiting a local sports club that is close by, and suggests that they both learn it together ('if we go together, we have great compnay'). The tone is friendly and appropriately adapted to an informal email format. Ideas are sufficiently developed and relevant to the context, creating a clear and purposeful message throughout. While some details are a little casual or slightly repetitive, all core requirements of the prompt are fully satisfied.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 6.0

The letter maintains a logical flow overall, beginning with a warm greeting and concluding with a clear closing. However, paragraphing is somewhat deficient; the body of the email is presented as a single dense block of text rather than being broken down into logical paragraphs for separate points. Cohesive devices are used, but referencing and linking can be a bit mechanical or abrupt, such as 'The dustance between your home and my home is 20 minutes, it is not too far.' Despite these structural limitations, the progression of ideas is easy to follow and meets the requirements of a band 6.

Lexical Resource — Band 6.0

The student demonstrates an adequate range of vocabulary for the task, attempting some less common phrases such as 'sport activities', 'keen to learn', and 'prompt response'. However, there are notable spelling and word-choice errors, including 'compnay' instead of company, 'dustance' instead of distance, 'sutaible' instead of suitable, and 'pleasent' instead of pleasant. Additionally, phrases like 'quite numerous kind of sports' are unnatural. These errors do not impede communication, but they restrict the lexical score to a solid band 6.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 6.0

Zohra uses a mix of simple and complex sentence structures, such as conditional clauses ('if we go together, we have great compnay') and relative clauses ('which is 5 minutes away from my home'). There are several grammatical and mechanical errors throughout the text, including tense usage ('I want there one year before' instead of 'I went there a year ago') and punctuation slips like lowercase 'i'. The majority of simple sentences are clear, but frequent minor errors prevent the grammar from reaching a higher band level.

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